volunteering

i love a volunteer!

while weeding the completely-overgrown-despite-no-rain-and-record-temperatures backyard, i stumbled upon a volunteer purple  rose of sharon! sweet: now i have a coordinate for my volunteer pink one!

okra is awesome

as i approached my neighbor's garden plot, i saw what i thought were a row of hibiscus or rose of sharon blooms. wrong: they are okra flowers! who knew it was in the same family?